Help Seattle Dopers name their trivia team!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Some Seattle Dopers have been working hard to do the boards proud at our local trivia night.

We’ve assembled a team with intelligence, wit, and good looks in abundance. Regulars include Aguecheek, Interrobang!?, Cervaise, amarinth, and inkysplotchy, and the lovely Mrs. Aguecheek is a regular too. Even with all this talent, we lack one important element: the perfect team name!

Ever since a “name our gay bowling team” thread last year (my favorite: the Nathan Lanes), I’ve known that if I ever needed a team named, the boards would be the place to go.

So, please suggest away…but with one important restriction:

We’d like the team name to have a music theme. This is because the two winningest teams on Trivia Night have musical names (Elvis and Spear Britney), so we figure there’s some musical mojo going on.

Our team, since hitting its stride in December, has won twice: once with the anti-Elvis name Bloated Bathroom Cadaver (tasteful, no?), and tonight (yay us!) as the non-musical Easy-Bake Coven. Front-runner for next week’s name is Mortal Sinatra…not bad IMHO, but we’d like a musical moniker that’s worth keeping forever.

Thanks, and remember…a bad pun is a joy always.

By the way, for Dopers in the area who have not yet joined in the fun, it’s Tuesdays, 8-10pm, at the George and Dragon pub (on Leary Way just west of Fremont’s core). To see who’ll be there on a given Tuesday, follow this thread.

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Perusing the list of Team Trivia names I keep stashed in my Palm Pilot:

Look At Them Yo-Yo’s
Hotel Carolina (Born from an amusing wrong answer)
A Flock Of Seagulls - Greatest Hits

…a few of our favorite non-musical names:

Mrs. Paul’s Shelter For Battered Fish
Jedi Mind Tricks
Dumb Cookies

…and finally, my favorite team name gleaned from the Straight Dope:

Observe the Snow: It Fornicates

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The trick to naming a trivia team is pick something so obscure that it will intimidate the other team when none of them get it – or even better, when one of them gets it and then spends the rest of the night worrying about the fact that his teammates didn’t.

–Cliffy

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Sketchy at Best

The Chocolate Platypus Experience (could be cross referenced with Jimi H.)

The Medicated Outpatients

and one of my personal favorites…

Rancid Yak Butter Tea Party which is a local band in Columbus Ohio. I doubt VERY much that they will mind you borrowing the name.

Good Luck

moejuck

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When we played up at Murphy’s on 45th, we changed names every week. I thought that the very best ones were pun-based, and referential to recent news stories.

Those names tended to intimidate other teams with our brilliance and cleverness, even though we only carried the day once because of our inhumanly strong 80’s-Sci-Fi-Cartoons expert.

Thanks to the SDMB, we had “Harry Pothead and the Stoner’s Source”, and my favorite local pun was “Eyman’s Piemen”, after an incident involving a public radio station, the City Attorney, and meringue.

This weeks recommendations:

Martha’s Cellmates
May Garriage
Al Sharpton’s Rolodex

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Thanks for the suggestions made so far. Keep ‘em comin’!

I swear I’m not posting just to bump the thread. I wanted to record, and not forget, two good ones:

Minnie Pearl Jam (credit to Cervaise)
Crystal Gayle Force

And there’s always Guitarzan. Or, more obscurely, Sitarzan.

Jack Black (in High Fidelity) came up with one of my all-time favorites, Kathleen Turner Overdrive.

Finally, another one already taken, the all-time favorite of the emcee at Trivia Night: Trivia Newton-John.

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Exposed Nirvana

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Old school, but still one of the best -

Ed Gein’s Upholstery

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One of the regular teams at the restaurant where I host plays as “Sonic Death Monkey,” which is also from “High Fidelity,” as I understand.

“Kathleen Turner Overdrive” also reminded me of one of my absolute favorites from a quizbowl tournament I helped run: “Stone Cold Jane Austen.” Just the right mix of academia and poor taste.

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Shameless (though relevent) plug: I keep a woefully out-of-date game recaps page on our trivia company’s website. Feel free to hijack any amusing names as you see fit.

(I really did think E. Thorp, et al, might find an amusing name or two among the recaps. I don’t intend this to be a “[message] primarily intended to promote a…website,” so I don’t think it’s against the rules. If I’m wrong, feel free to zap the post with my apologies.

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For what it’s worth, I mentioned our quest for a moniker to my wife, and the intent of this thread. And when I told her we were looking for a pun or other play on words, she wrinkled her nose in distaste, as if I’d proposed we name ourselves “People Who Play Polo with the Bloody Skulls of Aborted Fetuses.” Apparently, she loathes puns.

She suggested, if we’re looking for a musical name, that we borrow the title of the Buffy episode and call ourselves Once More With Feeling.

Pretty good, but secretly, inside my head, I immediately turned it into Puns More, Wife Reeling.

Sorry sweetie. It’s a failing.

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How about something musical which is also a Straight Dope reference? Cecil’s Tailors. Cecil Taylor is a jazz pianist.

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Musical?

How about:
REO Meatwagon
QueenAnne’sRyche - A bit of seattle plus bellevue based metal band

If you wanna go sacrilicous as well as topical you could go for:
Pontius Pilate and the Nail Driving 5 (which is what I would name my band if I had one)

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Dirty rotten puns:
Johnny Cashholes
Sex Pistol Packin’ Mamas
Knights in Cecil’s Service
Rum, Sodomy and the Clash
R.E.Emperor
Peggy Lee Harvey Oswald
Beat the Meatles

Non-puns that would work nicely:
The Velvet Underground
Talking Heads

That being said, my favorite is actually Original Sinatra. Short, sweet, and not on obvious pun. At least, not a naked groaner.

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Well, we could just call ourselves the Naked Groaners and be done with it…

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Hey, these are getting good. Cecil Taylor is one bad mofo.

How about The Jesus and Mary Chainsaw Massacre?

Once More With Feeling is pretty good indeed. But if the election were held today, I would probably vote for the electable candidate, Original Sinatra.

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I’ve got Sex Pistols on the brain:
Sex Pistoleros
Sex Pistol Whipped
The Opposite of Sex Pistol

Sex on the brain:
Burlesque Ives

I like Jesus and Mary Chainsaw Massacre. Or the shorter, non-musical Seattle Chainsaw Massacre for space.

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Someone in the other thread mentioned The Usual Group of Idiots. It’s got a good beat - I say go with that, unless you don’t want to label yourself idiots. :slight_smile:

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It’s not musically related but you could try for one of these:

Haiku D’Etat
Pol Pot Pie
Tonton Macoute-a Kinte
Mao Tse Tong in Cheek

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By completely random chance, when I saw this, I was humming “A Horse with No Name.” And the America vibe combined with JayLa post to give me:

The Usual Muskrats.

I don’t know why that cracks me up, exactly, but I think that’s my favorite option right now.